Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-25
i11B MODERN MIDASES.
,ro If MiIIionaires and Some of
''i ite Fortunes What $780,
100000 Means.
land Its Rich Men-HOW Repre-
curative Symes and Ex-senator
Hill H2ve Made Money.
ID, san Francisco Fortunes which
sapn' :, Not Be Taken Into Rich Mems
Iroains-What they arc Worth.
r.nrrtzhted lss7, by the Author.


-.itsd States has as a country more mil
I-.. los in proportion to its population
l'.', Nv other. Every one ofour cities has
.sn or more men who are worth mil
and when we come to larger ones
I'VE 11nber is so great as to be unknown.
g-vork has to-day more men worth
an 400 each than it had fifty years ego
who we're worth 100000, and the
n ..,rv Of the world shows but few in
a'sCz NJ men starting with no hing who
SCI reached the enormous wealth
1,'' trom s25,000,000 to 100000, 900
" C.u Law Gould is now said 10 be worth
gu ~ tgice this, and Vanderbilt died
ls,.-3 like amount. A stats lclsn not
"a. eco tried to give an idea OF what
~. .aG5 nm 600 meant "It would" said
:. OF taken IN silver cover q space of
w .,,lv sixty &C -es and its weight would
:. -Ie0 tons. It would take freight
YIN two miles and q half long to carry
and an /. could not be hauled by less than
.r a locomotives. These silver dollars
mid be so many that il they were laid
70 touching the Otner they
~ make q silver streak from
Vsw York to San Francisco and would
IN half Is far again on into the Pacific
ocesn. If they were piled up dollar upon
s,Isr they would make a solid column
1;5 miles high, and il. they were put into
onedOIsr bills the bills would nearly
siretch around the world. II the bills
we're piled one upon another, they would
each upwards twelve miles, and Il they
rare sewed together edge to edge into g
rrszv Guilt they would cover 746 acres !"
But gv 4 these figures give but little
i8es Of what $500, 900, 900 mean. At 6
nqr cent. $500, 100000 brings in $I2,
fN0OO year or nearly $1,000 day not
including Sundays. A thousand dollars
an hour would be a low estimate Of what
J,y Gould's income is, and at the lowest
r,fes Of interest SIS is added to his for
Time every minu Of every day and night
tbst be lives. These milliOnsires are
rrely sstisd d with per cent, and when
yoa remember G per cent. Of a million
iss51OO0a year it enables you to CON-
prehsnd something Of the value Of these
Inn-nse fortunes. There is Issish
Williamson of Philadelphia, who has
nsde $40, 600, 900 in dry goods and whose
Income ought to be q million and half
YEARLY. He is the richest bachelor in the
United States and spends less than $4,000
8 7esr. Weightmsn, the Philadelphia
druggist, has also $20,C00,G00, and his
big fire proof safe is filed with mortgages.
Still he works just as hard as though he
had not $1,000, 900 above his expenses,
sld he experiments IN his library with q
ten cent calico apron stretched around his
rOtund frame.
ROCKEFELLER, the coal Oil millionaire is
worth $50 600 600, and his income ought
70 be s., 100000, but it is poor Standard
Oil stock that does not pay more than 10
pericent and R ckyfeller's property prob
ply pays nesrIy 100000 900 than 81, 000,-
go. He hiss hard time to spend it, and
be ssid some time ago that he hoped the
Lord would help him. Leland Stanford
is another Of these big millionsires- He
Is worth from $50, 900, 900 to 500 900, 0C0,
sDd his new university is to cost between
sljO0O,OOO and S2O,OO0,000. He once
thought he was doing well as young
lawyer when he made $500 in yearly
fees, and I doubt not he felt very blue
when the fire which burned his library
drove hin west to California and to for
tu1e.
MlliQnsires IS 8 rule congregate in the
Afger cities. 1t is there that the most
business is done, and it is there that the
grestest fortunes are made and invested.
The names of the New York milloDaiTes
Of
aires Of Cleveland line Euclid avenue for
niles, and Senator Palmer of Michigan
says that Detroit has a score Of men who
Ne worth 81, 900 900 and more. The old
quaker City of Philadelphia has many a
Upsus, and Baltimore, Boston and Chi
ago stand high among the cities of the
world as the ab0des Of rich men. New
hsVen, Conn, is said to have more wealth
lasn any other city of its size in the
United States, but Senator Mitchell OF
UiegCn claims that Portland has more,
sao the larger cities of the west are
Known in Congress by their millionaire
representatives.
Denver is fast becoming s city of rich
men. Elk Senator Tabor owns real estate
Iefe worth nearly million, and one of
re Banker K0untz brothers owns q house
Il Denver worth over 100000. Judge
Symes, the red-headed Congressman who
As Judge Belford's seat in the House of
representatives. has big block near
1sooT's opera house which brings in as
l0cn SIS kings ransom every year. 1t
sSaIns with lawyers and Symes has fitted
v Inc building for legal Offices and has
El1 one Of the largest law Libraries in the
Nsst N It for the use OF its occupants.
Spesking Of Charlie Kountz, the Kountz
Syls are among the most enterprislng
Illlonat-es of the United States. Orig
GI4ay poor boys they started out from the
o-'O Town Of Canton to make their for
'.Les' They engaged in banking and
TaVa Of the four is now worth several mil
I I0us' Two Of them have magnificent
.Ouses near New York, great stone pal
T IysS N the New Jersey mountains above
0C.OIilstoWn. Another has q home in
,S~ana, which is palatial in its appoint
TE,suIs, 'nd fourth has a big house at
SSslVer. Tabor himself lives in hun
w s.sH thousand house, and Senator Hill is
Tu 70 be worth million. d.
=. \. MOffstt, the president of the
nsaVer and Rio Grande Railroad
n Saue to Denver as q bookseller, and is
n GgH worth $1,000, 600, while the two
6T.ayIon brothers who brought $4,000 to
S.lYer during Lincoln's presidency are
s s-S9 worth 81, 600, 900 or more. Symes
1aue the most of his money in mining
Nv Nv and ex-senator HIPS fortune comes
= I. The application CT scientific methods
le reduction of precious metals. Hill
w.. college professor when he came
gs ss' He went TO Swansea in Wales and
= ~ learned the secret processes
n. smelling. He came back to
NJ, ,e'er and turned his knowledge
NJ ~ gold. He has one emploYe in his